PIP: This article profiles the status of women in the period of Partition and in the aftermath of the political movement as narrated by Sushil Narulla. She began by recounting her grandmother's plight as a woman in a Sikh and Hindu community, where women led a life of seclusion, with little exposure to the world outside. They had very little social interaction with the Muslim population in contrast to the men who were socially and culturally well integrated with the Muslim population and also had common economic and commercial interests. In addition, girls only received primary education though there were Hindu, Sikh, Muslim and government high schools in Bannu; they were married early to men of their parent's choice. As a married woman in a joint family, Sushil's mother and the other women in the household worked the tasks in the domestic domain, added to this, there were restrictions in their mobility and freedom. When the family moved to Purana Qila after the Partition, the intense orthodoxy of the early days had changed. Education was allowed for both genders and there was more freedom in marriage practices. Lastly, there was no society to enforce norms, people did what suited them best.